Patch 100 - May 8, 2009: Spell recovery, Action delay, more.

[Derrick]

Combat and spellcasting related changes

• There will be a recovery delay on interrupted spells.
• All weapon swing recovery will be based on stamina (there is no longer a static 2 second timer after disarming)
• Spells casted (or miscasted) on objects will take reg and mana.
• Fizzle animation on failed debuff will be on target, not caster
• Packet throttle on Attack, Lift and Use packets of 1.0 seconds (on average, slightly compensated for lag and bursting)

Other fixes:

• Fixes issue with disappearing pets, and allows non-interacted with spawns to decay, which should balance out outdoor area spawns and clean up stuck creatures.
• Magic Reflection, Invis, Reactive, and Protection items will not activate or consume charges if already in effect
• Adjustments to Southern Lost Lands spawns
• Orc Lords and Orc Captain equipment correction.
• Fixed damage on Magic Gnarled Staff's (was doing wand damage when swung)
• Movement and some other packets are now being more tightly throttled.
• Decayed corpses now show stones and weight as a normal container.

[time2a]

so no more instant recast on g heal when u get interupted and when disarming hally the timer to re arm now goes by howmiuch stamina thou has?

[Reila]

Fixes issue with disappearing pets, and allows non-interacted with spawns to decay, which should balance out outdoor area spawns and clean up stuck creatures.

This one is great! Ty.

[EVeee]

All weapon swing recovery will be based on stamina (there is no longer a static 2 second timer after disarming)

Is this based on percentage of remaining stamina or the character's max stamina?

[MatronDeWinter]

All weapon swing recovery will be based on stamina (there is no longer a static 2 second timer after disarming)

Is this based on percentage of remaining stamina or the character's max stamina?

I believe it is on remaining stamina.

[Freeza]

Combat and spellcasting related changes

• There will be a recovery delay on interrupted spells.
• All weapon swing recovery will be based on stamina (there is no longer a static 2 second timer after disarming)
• Spells casted (or miscasted) on objects will take reg and mana.
• Fizzle animation on failed debuff will be on target, not caster
• Packet throttle on Attack, Lift and Use packets of 1.0 seconds (on average, slightly compensated for lag and bursting)

Other fixes:

• Fixes issue with disappearing pets, and allows non-interacted with spawns to decay, which should balance out outdoor area spawns and clean up stuck creatures.
• Magic Reflection, Invis, Reactive, and Protection items will not activate or consume charges if already in effect
• Adjustments to Southern Lost Lands spawns
• Orc Lords and Orc Captain equipment correction.
• Fixed damage on Magic Gnarled Staff's (was doing wand damage when swung)
• Movement and some other packets are now being more tightly throttled.

Hey Derrick,

Quick question, I believe all of the research Faust has done shows against what is being implemented in the way of the recovery delay for spells and for the recovery swing, why are these being changed to go against what he had posted over and over again using patch notes to support? Maybe I am just not understanding the changes?

Thank you

[Derrick]

Hey Derrick,

Quick question, I believe all of the research Faust has done shows against what is being implemented in the way of the recovery delay for spells and for the recovery swing, why are these being changed to go against what he had posted over and over again using patch notes to support? Maybe I am just not understanding the changes?

Thank you

We have found significant evidence, and even more today (which I think Faust may post shortly) that the "refreshes" were indeed stamina based. If what was found today pans out in a straight face test, we may be making a slight modification tommorrow to the swing system.

[Safir]

Other fixes:

• Movement and some other packets are now being more tightly throttled.

What exactly does this mean? I'm just curious and in no way objecting to the above quote. ;)

[Derrick]

It means there was a little loophole where movement speeds could be exploited in short bursts. This opportunity has been significantly narrowed.

[Mung]

so am i right to believe that on a halby mage with 100 str 100 int 25 dex; that the insta hit timer will refresh in 2 seconds when 25/25 stamina? and scaled down based on the percentage i have left? With say, 10/25 My refresh timer would be 3s and with 0/25 the full timer swing of 4.5? I would really like to know if it percentage based as such.

This being implemented reminds me of how powerful i seem to remember mace mages with qstaff being vs everyone here being halby mage

on a side note I have seen some actual diversity in the tank mages weapons of choice lately, archery is on the come back.

[Faust]

Derrick is correct with his statement. I have conceded that the disarm delay could very well not have been 2 seconds as suggested in the stratics article. My basis for anything in research is the evidence that is presented in front of my face. I don't base my opinion on bias for how the game should be or what template should be best. I simply go by the facts that are on the table.

There are two known logical theories that resolve around "insta hit refreshes", "weapon cycles", "fast swings", or whatever you prefer to call the process... These two theories are wrestling and the static 2 second disarm delay mentioned at Stratics in early February '99.

The difference between the two vary slightly...

The evidence that surrounds wrestling is very slim but there has been some discoveries lately. I'm still convinced that the disarm delay was implemented in 2.26.99, but it was based on the wrestling delay instead of a static 2 second delay. There are a few reasons behind this ideology... First, the disarm delay in modern UO functions exactly the same way. When you unequip your weapon the delay shifts to your wrestling delay. The problem with this philosophy at first was that the speed of wrestling is 50 in modern UO, which would produce roughly the same results in a similar manner like it did in t2a. This was actually a good thing to back up this theory. However, the key arguement behind this was that the delay in the demo for wrestling is 25 and it was hard to believe that the delay increased by a hundred percent when all other weapons were decreased.

This article claims that wrestling was just as fast if not faster than a kryss... A kryss stands at a speed of 53. This is VERY close to the suggested speed of 50 that is listed for wrestling now. The only known change of speeds was in late '98 and '03 when AOS was released. This article dates all the way back to the year of 2001. Now given the mechanical nature of the disarm delay in modern UO and this plausible theory that wrestling was in fact a speed of 50, it's highly likely to be the true result of this feature that many people remember all too well.

I can no longer support my other theory that surrounds the disarm delay over my previous theory of the wrestling delay when disarming a weapon that reproduces this process.

[ecetres]

Nice work guys and thats a ton of great research!!

[Choppa X]

Other fixes:

• Movement and some other packets are now being more tightly throttled.

What exactly does this mean? I'm just curious and in no way objecting to the above quote.

It basically means people who used to "speedhack" will have more difficulty doing so now.

[Wise]

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Good job derrick, keep up the hard work mate!

[Safir]

Other fixes:

• Movement and some other packets are now being more tightly throttled.

What exactly does this mean? I'm just curious and in no way objecting to the above quote. ;)

It basically means people who used to "speedhack" will have more difficulty doing so now.

It means there was a little loophole where movement speeds could be exploited in short bursts. This opportunity has been significantly narrowed.

Thank you for the explanation! ;)